Nick
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i have...last night. not permanently broke..just annoyingly broke. went and bought another e30 off a mate, a 318 stripped out, cut springs spax dampers, 15"bbs cross spokes... picked it up, and despite being burdened with open diff gayness, i decided to see how it handled. the suspension is way too stiff, and the seatbelt thats non existant sort of made it a bit scary to drive at times, but i did a few laps of a roundabout sideways in the wet....now this is the bit where itd be ok to break it cos i was mesing around... but no. after finishing playing.. i drove to the service station to get a cuppa, and parked up on the pavement...kinda forgot the car was so slow and basically rammed the curse word out of the sump on a kerb.. so after sleeping on a chair at a truckstop i finally got back home.. the car is now half wedged on ramp at my workshop and wont come on or off the ramp now (its ground out on the fuel tank)... if i can borrow a camera i'll get photo's of the damage... anyway anyone else care to share any dumbass stories so i feel less like a curse word for breaking a car pulling onto the pavement
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idea stolen from rattely eddie.
this weeks car count "5"
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and general ashamed ness I knocked the sump 'rallying' up a bumpy track on my first night out on my first car Mk1 1.3 ghia festa, then nearly reversed into a car, while i though i had 1st! fixed, then clipped the wing on on a tight bend on a skinny road on someones wall, missed the light. enough warnings? No. on my way to work 50 yards away i hit a post as the screen staemed up and sunlight popped out from behind a terrace onto wet road, couldnt see owt, avoided oncoming traffic and hit a curb mounted post on a bend. years on in my xr2, went up the tops where theres a dukes style jump in the road, went for it, jumped then noticed a queue of traffic waiting foa tractor, brakes don't work mid air thank god there was no on coming traffic as thats where i stopped next to the 3rd land rover from back of que. Shameful, I'm older and wiser now, obviously ;D
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts
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I set the interior of my Metro Turbo on fire whilst welding the floor.
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1972 Fiat 130 1985 Talbot Alpine 1974 Lancia Beta Saloon 1975 + 1986 Mazda 929 Koop + Wagon 1982 Fiat Argenta 2.0 iniezione elettronica 1977 Toyota Carina TA14 BEST CAR EVER!!!!!!!! 1979 Datsun B310 Sunny 4-dr 1984 Audi 200 Quattro Turbo 1983 Honda Accord 1.6 DX GONE1989 Alfa 75 2.0 TS Mr T says: TREAT YO MOTHER RIGHT!
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I rolled a mkIV Granada into a barn...
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Top grammar tips! Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum
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i blew the piston rings on my 250,000 mile 83 orange passat estate, while overtaking an xr3i up a steep hill. lov3ed that car too still i did get past him(in a cloud of smoke) ;D
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"quote hairnet"
I'm not paying nine pound for a pi$$!
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When I first bought my Golf it was going through a phase of misfiring randomly. Sometimes it wouldn't rev above 3000rpm, sometimes it wouldn't idle. I eventually tracked it down to knackered injectors, but not until I'd replaced loads of other things... One of which was the rotor arm. So one Sunday morning, armed with a new rotor arm, I removed the dizzy cap and tried to pull the old and worn looking arm off. Only it wouldn't budge. I pulled as hard as I dared to, but the flippin' thing just wouldn't move. So I went away into the garage and came back with a large screwdriver, levered it, and it STILL wouldn't move! With a distinct blue haze to the air around the car, I wandered back into the garage and came out with a pair of those water pump plier things, and eventually managed to smash the flippin' thing off. Put the new one on, took it for a test thrash to relieve some anger, and it was still misfiring. I parked it up, and left it. Then an hour or so later, came to move it. The engine cranked but wouldn't start. Was having NONE of it. Figuring that the only thing I'd changed was the rotor arm, I removed the cap, to be confronted with: Oops. Turns out that when I'd levered the arm, I was pushing against the hall sender trigger thingy, instead of the outer case. I must've distorted it slightly so that it ran out of true and eventually got mangled up. Of course, it wasn't replaceable so I had to buy a new dizzy. £160. OUCH Still, at least now I know that VW 16v rotor arms are GLUED ON!
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not mine but been in a workshop when a car fell off a lift.......
5 feet argh
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2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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Do not chase audi 80 quattros in the wet with a stock imp, you will crash!
J
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Do not chase audi 80 quattros in the wet with a stock imp, you will crash! J LOL ;D ;D Deceptive arent they ;D
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John
Part of things
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I popped a diff doing a 1/4 mile rolling burnout on the way to the pub in a stock Minor.......beautiful long line of black tread though!!
Popped another diff doing a "backwards and forwards"..........twin cam Minor this time......A60 diff.
Broke a 1/2 shaft doing a burnout at the traffic lights in the centre of Leeds.........Reliant Kitten V8....Volvo axle.....
There must be more but that is all I can remember for nopw!
John
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By the way... when I said 'rolled into a barn' I mean literally in through one wall, stopped on the wheels in the middle surrounded by chickens in a comedy moment.
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Top grammar tips! Bought = purchased. Brought = relocated Lose = misplace/opposite of win. Loose = your mum
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Shortcut
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I won't be there when you cross the road, so always use the Green Cross Code.
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I pushed my right foot just a little bit too far down while driving a TVR Chimera round a tight left hand bend on a greasy road.
Can you guess what it did?
Ended up hitting the kerb and folding the wheels on one side up underneath the car.
Ah well, I'll never forget it anyway!
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This space available to rent. Reach literally dozens of people. Cheap rates!
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I popped a diff doing a 1/4 mile rolling burnout on the way to the pub in a stock Minor.......beautiful long line of black tread though!! Stock as in 1098 (or worse)? Didn't realise that it was possible ;D
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i drove my mammy's felica estate into a wall. busted the whole thing and concussed myself, still havent paid her back and i wasnt insured on it... 1k damage and i've basically broken every car ive driven! busted my Seat by pulling the wand at 40mph and up and over a kerb and back down onto road... another 1k damage
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i drove my mammy's felica estate into a wall. busted the whole thing and concussed myself, still havent paid her back and i wasnt insured on it... 1k damage and i've basically broken every car ive driven! busted my Seat by pulling the wand at 40mph and up and over a kerb and back down onto road... another 1k damage shouldn't be pulling your wand on the move nevermind 40mph! ;D
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts
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SteB
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Shattered the rear springs on my mum's Astra a few years ago whilst transporting the bricks that make up a barbeque
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racer86
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'72 BMW 2002 / '72 Alpine A110 Gordini
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lets just say there is 3 smashed rims in my garage not to mention driving into the back of some one at 10mph by accident , and we all saw what that did!
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Skoda Estelle parked in rear of Nova at (red) traffic light whilst ogling girls....
1-day-old Merc Sprinter in unfortunate reversing with the door open incident....
Depositing oil & coolant all over the M1 during rush hour whilst attempting the £250-astra-wagon-land-speed-record.....
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Reynolds501
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Volvos, they're boxy, but good.
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I drove up (up, literally) a large dense hedge after slithering off a twisty country road in my old Clubman and bent the wing slightly, jeez, that's like nearly 10 years ago!!
Not done anything major really, my mate did though. Rewind to about 6 years ago, my mate had an MG Maestro 2.0l which he was really clogging down a wide deserted main road at night with a bunch of us in it, fully with the intent of getting a little bit of air by launching off the rail tunnel that went under the road.
We got nicely airborne alright and we seemed to be in the air for ages, then it came down totally nose first, made a hell of a thump!
We drove on at mad speeds, then finally parked up and wandered off from the car to behave like laddy tw*ts for a while. On returning to the car there was a huge glistening slick emanating from under the front, he'd landed on the bloody sump and virtually turned the b*gg*r inside out! ouch!
The story gets better, I sorted him a sump out but didn't have time to fit it for him, so he let a family trusted garage do the fitting, they must have had a less family loving atmosphere in the garage that day as they forgot to tighten the sump plug, it eventually vibrated out, and my mate promptly seized the sweetest running O series I have ever known!
Ahh, fun days!
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racer86
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'72 BMW 2002 / '72 Alpine A110 Gordini
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i had a hot 1275 in my first mini and was racing 3 other minis on the way to the Aston hall show, i shot past them and at 7000rpm the end fell of one of the sparkplugs wrecking the head,piston, ring and blew the head gasket. I limped it to the show and was taken home on the back of an AA truck and filmed by Midlands Today news!
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